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Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 15

' MR. PEPYS TELLS OF CHRISTMAS;Mi /-IHRISTMAS.DAY (1662).—Had a pleasant walk \j to Whitehall, where I intended to have received the communion with the family, but I came a little too late. So I walked up into the house, and spent my.time looking over pictures, particularly the ships in King Henry the Eighth's voyage to Bullaen: marking the great difference between those built then and now. By and by, down to the chapel again, where Bishop Morley preached on the song of the angels, "Glory to God on high, on earth peace and good will towards men.' Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity of the court for the true1 joy that shall and ought to be on those days. Particularised concerning' their excess in play and gaming, saying that he whose office it is to keep the gamesters in order and within bounds, serves but for a second rather in duel, meaning the groome porter. Upon which it was worth observing how far they are come from taking the reprehensions, of a bishop seriously, that they all laugh in the chapel when he reflected on their ill actions and courses. He did much press us to joy in these public days of joy, and to hospitality. But one that stood- by whispered in my care, that the bishop do not.spend one groate to the poor himself. The sermon done, a good anthem followed with vialls, and the king came down, to- receive' the sacrament. .